About: Edwina Williams
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- Edwina Williams is the Times News Group's Northern Victoria editor covering the Ballarat Times News Group, Golden Plains Times, Moorabool News, Bendigo Times, and McIvor Times.
November 26, 2021
Groups align against family violence
CAFS has reinforced its commitment to inclusivity by re-signing as a Communities of Respect and Equality Alliance partner. A five-year-old Women’s Health Grampians initiative, the...
November 26, 2021
Saving mothers, babies, and the planet
THE Zonta Club of Ballarat and the Wendouree Cricket Club have partnered to put together birthing kits, designed to decrease developing countries’ maternal and...
November 26, 2021
City hosts Vietnam Veterans’ conference
THE 2021 state Vietnam Veterans’ Association of Australia conference was held in Ballarat this month. The Vietnam Veterans’ Association of Australia Ballarat Sub-Branch hosted 80...
November 26, 2021
Council takes a Gamble on new mayor
JUST over twelve months into his first term on council, Cr Gavin Gamble has been elected the mayor of the Golden Plains Shire for...
November 25, 2021
Bike track sees riders jump for joy
DURING pandemic lockdowns, fourteen-year-old Oscar Price headed to the old dirt bike jumps of Alfredton Recreation Reserve to exercise and be entertained while there...
November 25, 2021
Drones and AI assess arterial roads
STATE-of-the-art road maintenance technology will be trialled by the State Government on Ballarat’s arterial roads for six months from summer. Earlier in the week, Minister...
November 25, 2021
City to host Girl Guides of the world
GET ready to light the campfire, because a week-long International Girl Guides Australian Jamboree will take place on Wadawurrung Country. Ballarat will host the large-scale...
November 25, 2021
BADAC films keep history alive
A FIRST-hand digital history of Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative is now accessible to the broader community. As part of their 40th anniversary celebrations, BADAC...
November 23, 2021
Linton cricket nets under construction
KIRK McDonald remembers bowling and batting in the Linton Cricket Club nets as a kid. Decades on, now the club’s president and junior coordinator, he...
November 22, 2021
Comedic Cavanagh hosting awards
IT’S almost time to roll out the red carpet for the virtual City of Ballarat Youth Awards. From 7pm on Friday, 26 November, the event...
November 21, 2021
Carving landscapes in lino
SMYTHES Creek printmaker Marie Mason is the latest visual artist to present work within the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Backspace. A master of colourful reduction...
November 20, 2021
Radio icon switching off after 65 years
SINCE the late-sixties, former 3BA managing director Peter Caligari has been one of Ballarat’s most iconic and generous local radio personalities. But in recent weeks,...
November 20, 2021
Refugee group appeals for assistance
IT’S been twenty years since Australian Defence Force personnel rescued asylum seekers from the freight ship Tampa near Christmas Island. In the same year, hundreds...
November 20, 2021
Online raffle buoying dragon boats
THE SpringFest Online Raffle will be drawn in just under two weeks, so there’s still plenty of time to purchase a ticket, or ten,...
November 20, 2021
Crafts, friends and fun in Sheila’s Shed
WHILE staying at her son’s home, Isabel Birch was tasked with decorating some of his handmade wooden scissor-holders. Brightening them up with paint and stickers,...
November 20, 2021
Artist draws on the environment
JULIE Mahnken has brought some Equilibrium to Soldiers Hill. Currently the Old Butchers’ Shop Gallery’s featured artist, Mahnken’s “expressive, dramatic” charcoal drawings of the built...
November 19, 2021
Local SES Unit busier than ever
VICTORIA State Emergency Services volunteers have been active for seven decades, yet the state’s units were collectively called out to more jobs in the...
November 19, 2021
Small grants boosting Buninyong
MULTIPLE Buninyong community groups are set to benefit from Federal funding that was distributed by Member for Ballarat Catherine King last week. The Senior Citizens...
November 19, 2021
Local papers put Ballarat’s name in bold
STORYTELLERS of Ballarat stopped the presses at the annual Community Newspaper Association of Victoria Awards earlier in the month. Local grassroots publications were finalists in...
November 19, 2021
Underbar a top-80 restaurant
GOURMET Traveller has named Underbar one of the country’s top eighty restaurants. Included in the magazine’s 2022 Restaurant Guide, the Doveton Street venue offers a...
November 19, 2021
Shedders’ story told in new book
THE first Australian men’s shed was established in rural South Australia in 1993, and the concept has since boomed, with more than two-and-a-half thousand...
November 19, 2021
Masterful Christmas cooking at Carols
SUNDAY, 19 December will be packed with Christmas cheer and song as Carols by Candlelight returns, welcoming tens of thousands to Mars Stadium. The program...
November 19, 2021
Champions of activity appointed
FOUR new ambassadors have been named to the City of Ballarat’s Active Women and Girls Program for the next twelve months. All passionate about female...
November 18, 2021
Dementia advocate state’s senior of the year
BIGGER Hearts Dementia Alliance Ballarat founder Anne Tudor OAM has been awarded Victorian Senior of the Year. A retired psychologist and psychotherapist, Ms Tudor is...
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